The capitalist structure of society is considered to be a system which brings enormous abundance, but only under the condition of constant economic growth, otherwise a recession and consequences follow, as we could witness after 2008. It is an ideology based on the belief that quality and a walfare depends on the growth of gross domestic product. Growth has become a contemporary political and social obsession and a social narrative that produces not only inequality and artificial scarcity but also an economic, social and, above all, environmental crisis. The thesis focuses on the above-mentioned ways of thinking of modern man and tries to find out why such ways of thinking prevail in the existing capitalist system and whether we, as a society, can survive and live without growth. We start from the theory or movement of degrowth which in its essence criticizes the existing global capitalist system, and at the same time, with the help of various practices, ideas and proposals, offers a fairer and more socially and environmentally friendly alternative.
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